Can You Feel Me Now? The Science Of Digitizing Touch

Scientists are developing tools that allow you to digitally feel textures like wood and cotton.

Listen to this twelve-minute radio show to learn about Katherine J. Kuchenbecker’s research - incorporating the sense of touch into robotic and computer systems. Prof. Kuchenbecker is director of the new department at MPI-IS: "Haptic Intelligence" (Stuttgart location).

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